Connecticut western news., 1887-04-27

and an old negro testified to having seen him going up the canon. A conductor on one of the cars said that man answering the description given by the men at the brewery and the old negro ha l ridden on his car. A grooer's man who happened to be driving by had seen this man and identified him as Loften.
 When the officers came to his house Loften was writing. and upon being told that he was wanted went at once, think ing there was some mistake which could be easily exp!aine cd, and it was not until brought before the magistrate that he learned that he was charged with mur- der. 5 =.--....-.,-. .
 He told his story, as we rave already done above, and pleaded his innocence, but the evidence against him seemed too strong, and he was sent to prison to await trial. ... nor could any traces of them be found.
 Loften lay awake all night in his cell. He knew that he was innocent but how was he to prove it3 He had always had a stainless reputation, and now he was in prison accused of murderl He thought of the grief and shame it would cause to his friends. Then he broke down and cried like child.
 After that he remembered nothing.
 When the jailer came with his break fast he found him staring at the blank wall of his cell. He spoke to him, but the prisoner did not move. Loften was mad.
 He was committed to an insane asylum, but the judge made stipulation that if he should ever recover his reason he should be tried for murder.
 For seven years Charles Loften was in the asylum. He ate and slept and was taken out to walk by nurse with some of the other patients, but he never spoke and he never appeared to notice any one or anything.
 At the end of seven years his reason suddenly returned. Everything was clear up to the night of his imprison- ment, but of the time he had spent in the asylum he remembered nothing. The court was notified that he had re- covered bis reason, and time was set for his trial.
 On the night before Charles Loften's trial robbery was attempted in neigh boring town.
 Between one and two in the morning the owner of a handsome place on the outskirts of the town was awakened and thought he heard some one moving in the house. He got up and went to his door and found that some one was nov ing about in the library.
 The house was lighted by electricity, and by pressing button at the head of the stairs the light could be turned on all over the first floor.
 This he did, and in an instant every room was lighted.
 Two men who had been groping about in the darkness were at first blinded and stupe6ed by the bright light coming so suddenly, then they came to their senses and ran, and as the proprietor hurried down stairs he saw them running through the house and escaping by a side door.
 As tho men crossed the yard the night watchman saw them and fired his pistol. The foremost man fell, but the other made good his escape.
 On the first day of Loften's trial jury had been selected, few witnesses had been called and the court had adjourned.
 On the second day of the trial, just as the third witness was about to take the stand, a note was handed tc the judge.
 It stated that, on examining the wounds of the burglar who had been shot in the neighboring town two nights before, it had been found that he could not live, and on learning this the mar had made confession.
 He said that seven or eight years be. fore he and one of his companions hao murdered man in Dead Mans Canor and robbed him of some valuable papers which he had in his possession. H, knew that an innocent man had beer arrested, but thought he would be ac quilted. He had afterwards learned tha the man, whose name was Charles Loften had become insane and had been placed in an asylum.
 The man who listened to the story , knowing that Loften was now on trial fo , this crime, had sent for a justice and hat the man make an affidavit, which he hao sent at once to the court.
 f When the judge had read the note tn
 atfidav was sworn to, and Charles Lot l ten, after seven years imprisonment for 6 crime he had never committed, was ono l more at liberty.-[New York Graphic. What the Animals Eat, D Circus goers are often awestruck
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